Dominican Republic

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 26, 2015

Polish former priest Wojciech Gil is sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing eight children in Poland and the Dominican Republic. MORE

Dec. 28, 2014

Dominican Republic authorities question Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro about shooting at nightclub that injured several people; Castro is released after questioning. MORE

Dec. 23, 2014

Poland halts inquiry of former Vatican ambassador Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who has been accused of sexually abusing boys while serving in Dominican Republic, due to fact that Dominican investigators have not responded to requests for materials and evidence. MORE

Nov. 30, 2014

Julia Alvarez travel article on road trip down Dominican-Haitian border on Caribbean island of Hispaniola, revealing international strains and cultural highlights. MORE

Oct. 18, 2014

New York Gov Andrew M Cuomo visits Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in hopes of attracting votes from Hispanics at home; exit poll conducted by Edison Research found that Hispanic voters represented 9 percent of the statewide turnout in 2010. MORE

Sep. 24, 2014

Vatican opens criminal proceedings against Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, one of its former members; Wesolowski stands accused of sexually abusing boys he met on the street while serving in the Dominican Republic. MORE

Sep. 15, 2014

Men who played in two amateur baseball leagues in the Dominican Republic in 1950s and ’60s gather each September since 1985 in an old-timers game. MORE

Aug. 26, 2014

Roman Catholic Church spokesman says that Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, Vatican's former ambassador to Dominican Republic, has lost his diplomatic immunity and could face prosecution in criminal courts outside Vatican; he is accused of paying underage boys in country to engage in sexual acts. MORE

Aug. 24, 2014

Vatican has stirred outcry for helping Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, its ambassador to Dominican Republic, avoid prosecution in the country for sexual abuse of minors; church's handling of case shows that it continues to be reluctant to report people to local authorities and allow them to face justice in secular courts. MORE

Jun. 28, 2014

Vatican defrocks former Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski for allegedly sexually abusing boys while serving as pope's ambassador to the Dominican Republic; Wesolowski, first papal nuncio known to be removed from the priesthood because of accusations of child sexual abuse, has two months to appeal the decision. MORE

May. 23, 2014

Dominican Republic, facing international pressure, is poised to create path to citizenship for tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent were born to illegal migrants, but have Dominican identification papers. MORE

Jan. 12, 2014

Dominican Republic's Lago Enriquillo and neighboring Lac Azuei in Haiti are rising rapidly, flooding and submerging farms and ranches and displacing thousands of people; lakes have always had rising waters but never this large; cause is unknown, but consortium of scientists from United States and Dominican Republic are focusing on changing climate patterns as main culprit. MORE

Dec. 13, 2013

Op-Ed article by Prof Lorgia Garcia-Pena condemns the unjust ruling by the Dominican Constitutional Court that denies citizenship rights to those born to undocumented people; contends ruling is particularly extreme given that it is retroactive to 1929, putting those who know no other country than the Dominican Republican in civic limbo. MORE

Oct. 24, 2013

Dominican Republic's top court declares that children of undocumented Haitian migrants, even those born on Dominican soil decades earlier, are no longer entitled to citizenship; decision throws into doubt the status of tens of thousands of people who have never known any other national identity. MORE

Oct. 18, 2013

Protesters in Times Square, within view of the Dominican consulate, denounce recent court ruling in Dominican Republic annulling citizenship of anyone born there to noncitizens after 1929; decision applies to as many as 200,000 people, mostly of Haitian descent. MORE

Sep. 5, 2013

Vatican removes papal envoy Archbishop Josef Wesolowski from his post in Dominican Republic and authorities there say they will look into rumors of child sexual abuse. MORE

Mar. 6, 2013

Dominican Republic judge calls for Sen Robert Menendez to appear in court as charges and countercharges fly over veracity of allegations that Menendez patronized prostitutes in that country; Dominican lawyer Miguel Galvan files sworn affidavit saying he had enlisted the women to participate in interviews and that it had been staged. MORE

Nov. 9, 2012

Medical student William Florian Ramirez is fatally shot by police during violent student protest on campus of Autonomous University of Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic; protesters are angry about new law that will significantly raise sales taxes and proposal to privatize the school. MORE

Nov. 4, 2012

Police in Dominican Republic arrest three men suspected of killing former major league pitcher Pascual Perez. MORE

Nov. 3, 2012

Former major league pitcher Pascual Perez, who was killed during apparent home invasion in Dominican Republic, will be remembered for his infectious eccentricity both on and off the field; Perez's sometimes brilliant pitching skills were hampered by his struggle with drug addiction and his moody temperament. MORE

Nov. 2, 2012

Former pitcher Pascual Perez, who had troubled career, is killed at his home in Dominican Republic in apparent robbery. MORE

Mar. 7, 2012

Margarita Cedeno, candidate to become vice president of the Dominican Republic, files a criminal complaint charging that a television commentator falsified documents to support his claim that she had millions of dollars in an overseas bank; Cedeno is the wife of Pres Leonel Fernandez. MORE

Jan. 29, 2012

Arrest of Dominican baseball player who used the name Fausto Carmona brings to light the problem of identity fraud among players from the Caribbean nation; he is charged with using a false name and birth date; Cleveland Indians have placed him on the restricted list; he is free on bail but cannot leave the country until his case is settled. MORE

Jan. 20, 2012

Cleveland Indians pitcher Fausto Carmona is arrested on suspicion of using a false identity in the Dominican Republic, where officials are contesting his real name and birth date. MORE

Oct. 26, 2011

Amnesty International releases report accusing the Dominican Republic’s national police force of killing and torturing with impunity, contributing to an increase in crime and violence rather than helping to curb it. MORE

May. 6, 2011

University of Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari will coach Dominican Republic national team. MORE

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March 26, 2015, Thursday

A Polish priest accused of sexually abusing minors in Poland and in the Dominican Republic offered to serve a seven-year jail sentence as his trial opened on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for a regional court in Warsaw.